Baseball and the Supreme Court

The trivia questions you've been waiting for

In these dog days of summer, I figured that I would combine my passion for baseball with the judicial portfolio of Confirmation Tales.

1. Two Justices have played baseball in the major leagues. Name them.

(Ten points for each correct answer.)

Hints:

One Justice was Rookie of the Year, a three-time All Star, and twice a member of a World Series champion team.

The other Justice has a first name that is almost identical to the middle name of a 20th-century Chief Justice.

2. This catcher was admitted to the Supreme Court bar during his major-league career and is the only major-league player ever to be a member of the Supreme Court bar.

(Twenty points.)

3. This catcher filed a lawsuit in which he contended that a cartoon character defamed him.

(Twenty points.)

4. List as many as you can of the major-league baseball players Justice Harry Blackmun names in his opinion in Flood v. Kuhn (1969) (holding that major-league baseball’s reserve system, which forbade players from becoming free agents, is exempt from the federal antitrust laws).

(One point for each correct answer, but one point off for each wrong answer.)